Please see below for a list of upcoming events being held by The Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender. This will be updated as dates and venues are confirmed.

 

Research Presentation – “We’ve Always Been Here”: Using Arts to Re-Connect LGBTQ+ Generations

CCTSG member Elle Whitcroft of BSMS will kindly be presenting her research for us.

What do intergenerational LGBTQ+ communities look like? How can we bridge the gap between older and younger LGBTQ+ groups?

This UKRI-funded research project and wellbeing intervention is designed to encourage LGBTQ+ intergenerational connection using a variety of collage, comics, zines, painting, creative writing, and art talking groups. This practice is designed to capture the complex, shifting, evolving nature of LGBTQ+ identities and histories.

Date:  Thursday 15th May 2025

Time: 13:00 – 14:00

Location: Checkland E513 / Teams

 

Muslim Masculinities – Interdisciplinary Conversations

The CTSG is proud to announce a new seminar series, organised and hosted by PGR Representative Ömercan Tüm.

Muslim Masculinities: Interdisciplinary Conversations will be a series of two webinars in late April / early May, exploring the thematic topic of masculinity within a Muslim context.

Session One

Dr. James Ravenhill (Royal Holloway University of London, Department of Psychology)

Don’t You Know That You’re Toxic? Masculinities Theories from the Social Sciences

Dr. Nazila Heidarzadegan (Independent Researcher)

A Historical Survey on Achillean Love in Persian Literature

Date: Wednesday 30th April 2025

Time: 13:00 – 14:00

Location: Online via Teams – sign up here

Session Two

Dr. Cüneyt Çakırlar (Nottingham Trent University, School of Arts & Humanities)

Framing Toxic Masculinity and Queer Vengeance in Alef (2020): Locations of Horror, Islam, and Heterodoxy/Heresy in Postmillennial Turkish Screen Culture

Dr. Çimen Günay Erkol (Özyeğin University, Modern Literature and Masculinity Studies)

Navigating the Backlash: Gender Equality and Male Engagement in Turkey

Date: Wednesday 7th May 2025

Time: 14:00 – 15:00

Location: Online via Teams – sign up here

 

Box Breakers: Queer Data, Categories, and Who Counts?

Box breakers live outside the narrow demands of gender, sex and sexuality categories. They are the residue of design practices – what is left behind after everyone else is organised into neat and tidy categories.

 

This conference encourages UG and PGR students to contribute a short presentation on a theme relating to sexuality, gender and/or the notion of box breaking.

Date: Tuesday 20th May 2025

Time: 09:30 – 16:00

Location: Hellerup Stairs, Mithras House

 

AGM

Date: Wednesday 16th July 2025

Time: Afternoon

Location: Grand Parade M2

 

CTSG x Trans Pride Brighton Symposium

Date: Saturday 19th July 2025

Time: 14:00 – 17:00

Location: Edward Street 105